Rolling Avian Issues Thread

Hope you're all voting today mates

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all that rhetoric about unseating the robin but it's nigh on the best one, might even vote for it

blue tit and wren the only acceptable alternatives

voted robin

If you weren't limited to that shortlist, what would be your choice for national bird of Britain?

Imagine btw that this is official and permanent, not that I think this thing is

Pied wagtail would be my choice

Has nobody else voted? :(

was gonna vote Puffin but fuck off giving an email address

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how would you feel if it after a couple of bemused trips to moorlands and wetlands, it became clear that though there was no lack of avians, the entire avian population now compromised only of common or garden british normcore perennials like blackbirds, robins, wood pigeons etc?

lol at the tableau at the top of the gis for wood pigeon by the way

trenchant autocorrects

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Jeronimus_Sweerts_-_flowers_in_a_basket_with_shells_and_a_bird_and_a_bowl_of_fruit.jpg

that is an excellent composition

props on making quite a gaudily-hued psittaciform look so demure

But despite herons being nicknamed the 'shitepoke' in some quarters for their usual reaction to being disturbed, the carefully-maintained shiny black paintwork was not sullied.

there were some odd looking avians in my aunt's ash tree the other day, like ....Parus major....but with longer tails

herons are dorks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFTApZVmOYI
Pres. Maduro: Hugo Chavez came to me in the form of a bird

this is the year I became aware of the crows eating ducklings issue :-(

there is such a thing as a long-tailed tit

the conformation is about right but these avians were of a different complexion

would the hitler party approve or diapprove of these avians and suggest they be expatriated?

they appeared to be autochthonous avians judging by the plumpness of their posteriors and their pale complexion; their frantic attempt to gather food suggested concern about the ongoing attempt to eradicate the british avianry and the british identity through the forced assimilation of different cultures and different avians with our culture and our avians resulting in the bastardization of the genuine diversity that makes up the rich tapestry of aviankind, specifically with reference to the tautly mesomorphic and lurid parakeets whose slender bottoms can often be seen perched athwart the branches of london trees

my best guess is the spotted flycatcher, whose habitual feeding technique is to make a circular sortie from & to the same branch, snaring a winged insect in the interim; this particular avian does prefer to venture abroad in the colder months, however - taking advantage of its aerial facility to ensure that a little piece of britain can forever be found in subsaharan africa, as is right

didnt look like freikorpsers

a+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re5LoYKyGT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3-E3xuQtqI

http://arttattler.com/Images/Europe/Germany/Frankfurt/die%20Stadel/Master%20of%20Flemalle/RvWeyden_Triptychon_Verkundigung_Stifter_Heimsuchung_Mitteltafel.jpg

avians-are-smart-deal-with-it: avian-americans & affirmative action

Although much richer in bird species, South America cannot match Australia's large, brainy passerines.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/sep/12/brainy_bird_alex_parrot_dies/

an avian with issues

chillness index of fauna

definitely of the DSM variety

http://www.facebook.com/AvianUK

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/1a/32/3b/1a323b4e9ae9d0f8ab74060e7a92a3d8.jpg

bravians

Re: I quit art school

Post by avian-reader » May 17th, 2013, 11:04 am

If all fails of course, you could always go into politics. It worked for Hitler, his paintings are famous now :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDbhUf--Yo

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u shd sample that yelp for something

the nerve on some of these avians now

My neighbor found a Japanese Quail. I believe I ran into someone who said they raised exotic birds at a neighborhood party recently, but didn't catch his name or which house he lived in. I think it was on Van Buren near Euclid. She tried knocking on doors in the area, but no one is home right now. If anyone knows who this might be (or knows of someone who would like to take care of the bird) please let me know. Thanks.

Wittgenstein had taken a particular interest in the different kinds of birds that are to be seen at Killary. (Northern Divers, Cormorants, Curlews, Oyster Catchers, Puffins and Terns are all fairly common along that part of the west Ireland coast.) At first he used to ask Tommy to identify the birds for him. He would describe a bird he had seen, and Tommy would do his best to name it, although, as he freely admits: ‘maybe it wasn’t always the right name I gave him’. Having caught him out a few times, Wittgenstein relied instead on the illustrated handbooks sent to him by Drury.

In order to gain a better view of the sea-birds, Wittgenstein wanted to build a hut on one of the small islands of the Killary coast. He was eventually dissuaded from this by Tommy (whose job it would have been to construct it) on the grounds that a small wooden hut would not be strong enough to withstand the exposed conditions on the island. Instead, Tommy took Wittgenstein out in a rowing-boat; while Tommy rowed, Wittgenstein would either look out for sea-birds or sit silently in contemplation. Occasionally, while out in the boat, they would chat, Wittgenstein reminiscing about his time in Norway, when he would have to row across the fjord to fetch his supplies, and Tommy answering Wittgenstein’s questions about the history of Killary.

Wittgenstein took an interest, too, in the more domestic birds, the robins and chaffinches, that used to come to the cottage in search of crumbs. He would encourage them by leaving food out for them, and eventually they grew so tame that they would come to him at the kitchen window, and eat off his hand. When he left Rosro he gave Tommy some money with which to buy food to provide for the birds, who had now come to expect a daily feed. By the time Tommy next visited the cottage, however, he found the birds’ tameness had been their undoing. While waiting by the window to be fed, they had fallen easy prey to the local cats.

When I was a boy I was bothered in listening to birds, because it obviously isn’t singing. Finally someone said to me, ‘All right, don’t call it singing, call it something else’. And soon I could listen to birds and enjoy it.

the other day i saw a (living, cephalically intact) owl for the first time, at about 11:30pm on a close, still evening perched in a bough of a tree at the end of the lane next to the house i was visiting

there is a small cluster of trees there adjoining some ancient deciduous woodland and there is very evident strigiform activity, although inverting the victorian childhood norm they prefer to express themselves in song

this one had managed to situate itself just so that it was lit from underneath by an old halogen street lamp, and it stayed there for several minutes, contorting itself once in the manner of a pigeon but otherwise static and silent

in near-silhouette it looked perhaps the size of a large corvid, but somewhat hencher and immeasurably more dignified, until the noise of a car passing in the adjoining road caused it to scarper onto the denser foliage of an adjoining underbranch

then it lay in wait for several minutes more until without warning it suddenly took off, unfurling its considerable wingspan and catapulting forward itself with twitchy explosivity and low stance until it disappeared into the trees at an arc suggestive of lethal intent

...provoking some of your most effulgent prosody this side of 2013, o lambent strigiform! was this one heard as well as seen?

static and silent if the rumours are to be believed

it is possible the ambient gurgle of a seated owl resembles radio static